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Status blocks, Chapter – Rockwell Automation GMLC Reference Manual User Manual

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Publication GMLC-5.2 - November 1999

Chapter

14

Status Blocks

Status blocks report the status of the motion controller to the operator
interface serial port. Blocks for reading axis position, axis status, discrete
input status and controller memory status are included in this section.

The following table presents the icons for each block in this category
along with a brief description. More detailed descriptions of the blocks
are contained on the pages following this table.

Use this block:

To:

Send the current position of the selected axis to the operator
interface serial port.

Send the current status of the selected axis to the operator
interface serial port.

Send the current state of a selected input to the operator interface
serial port.

Send to the operator interface serial port:
• The current status of the application program or of a selected

task, or the current value of the Runtime_fault variable

• The motion controller’s operating system firmware number
• Information about the integrity of the stored application

program or of the power-up values of the setup parameters, or
the size of the current application program

• The application identification string of the current program in

the motion controller